With time on our hands during the Coronavirus lockdown, we are reviewing the prices of some of our older stock and adjusting prices of books to ensure that they are the most attractive offering in the marketplace, as it is a reality of the antiquarian market for books that less expensive and mid-level material the trend has been inexorably downward, to the chagrin of booksellers and to the benefit of collectors. Consequently, we have slashed prices anywhere between 20 percent and 60 percent of these books we have had listed for five years or more. So we hope that anyone visiting the site might find something that might have become overpriced but now legitimately qualifies as a bargain.

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Friedman, Joan M.Color Printing in England: 1486-1870New Haven Yale Center for British Art 1978 First Edition Wraps Very Good 4to, ix, 72 pp followed by 72 plates, some in color. An exhibition catalogue on the subject at the Yale Center for British Art. The plates have short inked notes where captions would be placed and written by a studious former owner. Minor wear on spine and along the hinges -- the book was clearly used extensively, but by a careful and fastidious person. Otherwise, clean and tight.
Price:
15.00 USD

Julliot, GeorgesCahier de TechnologieNancy 1941-1942 Quarter Leather, over Decorative Boards (a noteboo Very Good Folio, 14.5 by 9.5 inches, 37 by 24 cm. Unpaginated lined notebook, with 52 leaves containing content, illustrated and text, with material often, but not always, on both sides, and many blank leaves besides. Extraordinary student illustrated manuscript on printing, its technology, replete with lovely Art Nouveau decorative touches throughout. Sections are devoted to the history of printing, typography, metals used in printing, tools of the printer, corrections, composition, abbreviations, capitals, italics, alignment, colors, the art of printing, etc. and then such things as conservation. Besides the thoroughness of the manuscript on the sundry aspects of printing, the illustrations are disarming and quite literally invite the eyes to linger on the pages. Such school projects were a staple of French pedagogy, and for better or worse, French education has traditionally placed a premium on flair and style, at times, over substance. In the instance of this manuscript, the latter has not been sacrificed at the altar of the former, and the resulting product deserved the highest of marks on all accounts. Other than the headings, most of the text is written with a neat, albeit non-calligraphic, hand.
Price:
750.00 USD